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48 Winter 2018 European Energy Innovation
MARINE ENERGY
EMEC
Clean energy from the ocean
By Neil Kermode (pictured, below right), Managing Director, European Marine Energy Centre,
Orkney Islands, Scotland
and it’s one that has far reaching could be generated from Earth’s
Harnessing the power of the implications at a time when our oceans – about double current world
ocean to provide clean atmospheric CO2 has crept over 410 electricity production – and in Europe
energy for our planet is parts per million. we’re blessed with some of the finest
on a par with the most
demanding of engineering challenges marine energy resources in the world.
ever faced by humanity. The World Energy Council has
estimated that around two terawatts And the challenges associated with
The prize, however, is enormous (two million megawatts) of power unlocking Europe’s marine energy
CorPower C3 WEC deployment at EMEC Scapa Flow site
www.europeanenergyinnovation.eu
